02 Jan 2023 --- Over 117 environmental and civil society groups are calling on the New York State Legislature to reject legislation that would promote and expand chemical recycling across the US – a move critics say is an “Orwellian” marketing strategy intended to justify the continued mass production of unrecyclable plastics. Chemical recycling processes, including gasification, pyrolysis and solvolysis, are being promoted nationwide by the petrochemical industry as “chemical recycling” or “advanced recycling.” However, such technologies are neither advanced nor recycling, claim opponents.
